BUTLER ET AL. v. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA


51 U.S. 402 (____)

10 How. 402

JOHN B. BUTLER, LEVI REYNOLDS, JUNIOR, AND WILLIAM OVERFIELD, LATE BOARD OF CANAL COMMISSIONERS OF PENNSYLVANIA, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. J.M. Porter, for the plaintiffs in error, and Mr. Alricks, for the defendant in error.


Mr. Justice DANIEL delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the State of Pennsylvania, under the twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, for the purpose of revising a judgment rendered by the court above mentioned at the May term of that court, in the year 1848, against the plaintiffs in error, in a certain action of assumpsit instituted against those plaintiffs on behalf...

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